- From: Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:36:23 GMT
- To: carrol.lunau@nlc-bnc.ca
- CC: www-zig@w3.org
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:19:21 -0500 > From: Lunau Carrol <carrol.lunau@nlc-bnc.ca> > > Remember Bath was developed in 1999 and Bib-2 was far from being > universally available then. At the meeting in 2002 in Dublin it was > decided not to reference Bib-2 in the new release 2 of Bath since it > was more important to nail down the holdings specifications and work > with vendors to implement them than to change the attribute > architecture on the large base of installed Z39.50 library systems > using Bib-1. The discussions in Dublin also indicated that there > were still some issues with Bib-2 and the interpretation of all the > Bath searches, which now include searching of authority files. Hi Carrol, I do appreciate the reasons that Bath decided not to go with BIB-2, and I understand why things have gone the way they have. But that doesn't stop it being a tragedy. -- Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com> Software Engineer, Index Data UK.
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